I realized I'm being trolled, but the ignorance at the heart of these statements is a caricature of the ignorance at the heart of all religion. The concept of faith is baffling. Faith is belief not just in the absence of evidence, but despite evidence to the contrary. This topic is deeply personal to me. As a scientist, I carry the legacy of a group continuously persecuted for MY beliefs, built from evidence past and evolving from evidence to come. This persecution has done nothing but hamper scientific progress and thus the technology that inevitably results.
We've moved beyond simply studying the biological world. Scientists of the last century learned how to exploit or conquer complex biological systems, resulting in cheaper and more abundant food and reducing the threat from many of the most terrifying diseases. Scientists of this century are learning how to BUILD biology, and the consequences of these achievements will likely exceed any speculation I might offer.
Faith is synonymous with intentional ignorance, and intentional ignorance wastes the very thing that makes our species special on this planet.
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